期刊名称：Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
电子版ISSN：1070-8286
出版年度：2007
卷号：14
期号：1
出版社：State University of New York at Albany
摘要：Criminology and media studies converge in a common fascination with the possibility of the predictability of human behavior and the power of representation. Both fields, historically, are empirically driven toward causal explanations of the fundamental relationship between social institutions and violent behavior. It is the problem of effects ¨Cthe relationship of specific factors and variables of influence ¨Cupon human behavior that constitutes the framework for the driving questions and conditions of both fields of inquiry. This paper seeks to address this relationship by surveying the disciplinary frames ¨Cquestions, theories, and methodologies ¨Cwhich typically accompany the study of youth violence and the media ¨Cand the manner in which these conventional frames relate or fail to relate to larger theoretical concerns in our understanding of media, youth, and violence. It is, in this sense, both a review of literature and an attempt to theorize complex intersections and disjunctures between oppositional kinds of knowledge. The study concludes with a discussion of what an alternative framework which privileges the social in the study of media effects might look like
